Doc Savage

Heh! Very cool to see someone doing an old classic! :):thumbsup

This younger generation doesn't know what they're missing!

-Sarge
 
Very cool!

This will be a popular costume a couple of years down the line, with the immensely talented Shane Black currently scripting DOC SAVAGE for the big screen which he is to Direct too.:)
 
Not just a big screen comeback, The Man of Bronze is also making a comeback in comics as well, as part of DC's "First Wave" and then his own on going.

It's good to see pulp characters making a comeback.
 
Very nice, first the Bantam Doc needs his widows peak, Secondly did anybody get it?
Big Savage fan here. I always thought he looked like Brendan Frasier in the old pulp illustrations.
Super cool!
I have a sword cane and a suit if ya wanna do a group pic this d-con.
 
darthinvictus said:
Very nice, first the Bantam Doc needs his widows peak, Secondly did anybody get it?
Big Savage fan here. I always thought he looked like Brendan Frasier in the old pulp illustrations.
Super cool!
I have a sword cane and a suit if ya wanna do a group pic this d-con.
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First I'd like to thank everyone for their kind compliments.

Actually, I do have a widows peak plus the annoying thinng hair over it.:cry I was going for a blend of the pulp and Bantam look.
The older attendees of the con recognized the character more readily than the younger set, but had some fun reactions from the young ladies. I got a bit flash blind from all the photos that were taken, so I guess some got it. The best recognition was from a gent dressed as Father Christmas who shook my hand and said, "Great to see ya, Doc. I don't need to ask if you've been a good boy this year." To which I responded, "It's my job to see to it that everyone is good.":lol

I haven't been able to attend a D-con yet, but have always been interested.
 
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Bak55,

Great Job!

I love the classics!

I'm interested in the details of the costume. Can you tell about the individual parts and where you found them?

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As I recall, I found the jodhpurs at a military show held annually at our State Fair grounds in the Spring and Fall. The boots I had bought years earlier at a local tack shop for my Rocketeer costume (Which I'll have to find pics to post at some time). The belt and shirt I had found a a local thrift store. Using the classic Bama image, I "strategically" tore the shirt to get the effect I wanted. Since I burn more readily than tan, I had used a spray-on tan. Then practiced in front of the mirror to strike the pose correctly when needed.

It was very warm in the hotel that July, so the spray on tan ran down my back and stained the shirt. Sadly, with the shirt torn up the way it was, it wouldn't have survived a wash cycle and I couldn't get the stain out by hand. So it was discarded with the hope of finding another shirt at the thrift store if I ever decide to do the character again.
 
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Nice job.
I always envision Doc as wearing a brown 1930s business suit with a multi-pocketed vest underneath but that's because of the pulps.

I'm glad to see someone giving Doc some representation. Someone did a Ron Ely Doc at a convention but he was quite out of shape. You've got a physique that works for the costume.

Wolf
 
again great look:thumbsup

your shirt resembles a model Indiana Jones, with bands vertical in your pockets.

best

Caplan.
 
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Great look, Bak....or, should I say, Clark, Jr....:cool

I was pumped years ago when it was rumored that Arnold The Governator was slated to play Doc in the movies,,,alas, nothing became of it, and now he's too old, I fear....

Speaking of James Bama....his artwork is one of the reasons I started collecting the Doc Savage Bantam paperback editions (along with Bob Larkin's work), back in the late sixties and seventies (and, I still have them all :cool)...as a kid, I read all of the "181 Super-Sagas" over and over, and wore out 2 copies of Philip Jose Farmer's "Apocolyptic Life"....Doc was (and still is) my all-time favorite human 'super-heros'....I still use the pseudonym "Clark Savage, Jr." in a lot of my on-line business, and it was my nickname back in high school....:cool

Rob
 
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